IN ENGLISHRight now it is cold, -12°C, and a lot of snow. DH had taken these snow pictures night before last, when there was full moon. I am hoping for spring: browsing seed catalogues and sowing perennial seeds for cold stratification keeps my own thoughts occupied. Six more weeks before the snowdrops flower and after ten weeks the daffodils and wood anemones are flowering. These pictures are from last spring.

IN ENGLISHI have knitted a pair of mittens with spring colors, yellow, white and greens. The yellow and yellowish green are dyed with weld and darker green is dyed with japanese indigo and weld.These mittens are called Spring Spirit, and there is a kit available for them now in my shop.

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WHY USE NATURAL DYES

"We can keep the knowledge of their use alive, as well as regaining for ourselves a vital contact with the natural world. The ability to correctly identify the plants needed, to understand their growth stages sufficiently well to be able to obtain the greatest dye, offer both challenge and pleasure."